The devastating impact of global warming induced sea level rise has become increasingly clear as powerful surges, coastal flooding and rapid erosion are more and more frequently wreaking havoc along the eastern seaboard of the United States.
A new report published Tuesday by the New York Times explains that, as the waters continue to rise, the land along the East Coast is also sinking, spelling disaster for coastal communities.
Accumulating scientific evidence suggests that the East Coast “will be a global hot spot for a rising sea level over the coming century,” notes New York Times reporter Justin Gillis.
“Scientists say the East Coast will be hit harder for many reasons, but among the most important is that even as the seawater rises, the land in this part of the world is sinking,” spelling “enormous risk for the United States,” Gillis reports.
Scientists have discovered that an ice sheet, which blanketed the upper half of North America following the last Ice Age, had caused the land along the Eastern Seaboard to buckle and rise. The subsequent melting of that ice is now causing the adjacent land to fall, meeting the rising sea.
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